eli5:why is Africa generally poor compared to the rest of the world.

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Africa has a lot of natural resources but has always relied on foreign aid. Nonetheless has famine, poor road network, poor Healthcare etc. Please explain.

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One theory is: lack of navigable rivers from the ocean, which is necessary for trade/transport of goods, which is necessary for civilizations to branch out and acquire new knowledge/technology.

They have one, the Nile, and the world’s oldest most advanced civilization sprung up there.

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